The internet (ie bandwidth) is cheap, but running servers, providing documentation and tech support all costs a decent amount of money.

However, treating an API as a profit center is a joke. These are literally companies developing software that makes the experience of owning a Tesla better. Making things unaffordable for those companies is putting short term profits over long term success of your product

Yea. The article didn’t mention that the car has over 97,000 miles on it. The battery + electric drive train warranty ends at 100,000 miles, and the ICCU units in those cars are a ticking time bomb. I don’t think that I would pay the $14,000 asking price.

Not to say that the article is wrong about EV depreciation, but the example given isn’t great.

This Chipotle blog entry describes things the best as far as I know: https://chipolo.net/en/blogs/chipolo-point-delay-and-google-find-my-device-app-update

Basically, in December, Google and Apple (and others?) came up with a standard on discovering trackers that are being used to stalk people. Because of the large iOS install base, Google has elected to wait for Apple to roll out that feature on iPhones before enabling the tracking device support on Android.

It feels a bit different to me. Tesla hugely invested in their own charging network, while everyone else let EA do it for them. Tesla could have kept their network private to sell more vehicles. As for the exclusive Rivian chargers…I’ve never seen one, but the nearest one to me is about 300 miles away.

There are so many scam apps in the AppStore today. So many apps have slot machine style mechanics that get people addicted and convince them to pay for more turns. In addition, a bunch of kid-friendly apps have really short subscription periods (a day?) At a high price (say $3.99).

It’s not to say that App Review has no value, but when it comes to scams that separate people from their money, Apple has 30% of a reason to look the other way

I’d prioritize as much RAM as you can afford. It’s shared between the CPU and GPU, and since you seem to have tasks that stress both, extra RAM would be beneficial.

Both the pro and max SoCs can support 2 external displays (max can support 4). The Max has more GPU cores, so some of your workflows will benefit from that.

Oh…check to make sure that your displays will work with a pro: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213503

Brady Hoke at San Diego State would like you to throw his name into the hot seat section. After going 12-2 in 2021 (w/ a good defense and the punt god), they are 10-11 over the past 2 seasons, and regressing quickly. Their most recent game ended with a 0-6 loss to Nevada, which hadn’t won since Sept 2022 and was second to last in points allowed. There is a brand new stadium that they are struggling to fill. His buyout of ~$5 million is probably too much for them to afford, but that seat is certainly hot.

Agreed. It’s an awesome feature, but Apple isn’t likely to do the work to replace crappy enterprise software. Those software companies spend lots of time developing central management consoles (is everyone up to date?), they provide “reports” to show that the company is compliant to a ton of requirements (ie. SOX compliance), and other features that describe exactly what their software protects against. While none of those tools provide benefits to the end user, companies dig that crap.

Getting a CD on the N64 would have allowed for some cooler videos in the middle of the game (and would probably have made things cheaper for developers), but, in my opinion, the thing that really killed the N64 is the tiny (4k) texture cache combined with high latency RAM on the system.

That’s why N64 games have a “look” that can be easily identified.

Agree…it’s sough to argue against that. However, it’s a big hill to climb as tons of HTs have something proprietary built in, and I don’t think anything has M17 available?

Las Vegas has a monorail but it only connects a handful of casinos on the strip. There had been proposals to connect it to Downtown Vegas and the airport, but I don’t think that there is any money set aside to make it happen.

I think there business model was to make money by running a recruiting service. In theory, prospective employers could see how well you really know a topic based on your answers.

And just to be pedantic, if it’s a newer MacBook, then the included cable is a “MagSafe” cable, which has USB-C on one end and a magnetic rectangle to plug in to charge. (You can still do regular USB-C charging if you want)

Part of me thinks that the point. He’s never coaching in college again with these accusations. So, my guess is that he is trying to make this as ugly and costly as possible in order to get Michigan State to pay a large percentage of his remaining contract in order to shut him up.

I’m surprised that they didn’t combine Vons and Albertsons…they are the same company

The Wii was a dying console when the Wii U was released. Once Nintendo made enough Wiis for people to get their Wii Sports fix, sales plummeted. There were some really good games made for the Wii in the second half of its life…but they didn’t sell that well. (At least this is what I remember)

That’s exciting news. One of the downsides of T-Mobiles mmWave deployments has been it needed an (often saturated) mid-band signal to work. So, this )once rolled out) removes that limitation.

Next, we’ll need them to actually roll out mmWave antennas so that we can all take advantage of that extra capacity!

Thanks for the hat tip. I was surprised it actually happened. That being said, the AD probably described the culture as a positive just to be nice. Brady retiring saved him a giant headache.

That tank is probably the only place in the world where penguins swim with leopard sharks! 😂

Realistically, it’s anyplace where I’m away from the rat race and enjoying beautiful views.

That being said, some of my favorites have been a KOA near Glenwood Springs, Colorado where I got a spot right on the Colorado river. It was really pretty and the sounds of the river and deer walking through the campground made it a fun trip. In addition, honorable mentions go to Lake Cachuma near Santa Barbara, CA and Crater Lake RV resort in Oregon. Both were near water, had pretty views and they had tons of activities.